“We have not, do not and will not use AI to ever work on these projects.”
Fans spent years turning the Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie back into readable code by hand so it could run properly on a PC. The developer who led that port says a new port of the sequel was made by pointing AI at his team's tools, and he wants everyone to know his team had nothing to do with it.
“Ai Slop food graphics inside a stadium, how far we've fallen.”
Fans noticed that the food menus at Dodger Stadium for the first game of the playoff series used AI-made pictures of the food, and said so online. Several asked why a team valued at about $8 billion had not simply photographed the actual food.
“Several of them are facing outward but also appear to have heads on both sides of their bodies.”
A picture spreading on Facebook claims to show a herd of bison forming a ring around a stranded hiker to shield her from a wildfire. Snopes found no record of any such rescue and noted that several of the bison have a head at each end.
“critics say the bust portraits, in particular, have the recognizable look of AI-generated art rather than a traditional park photo overlay.”
Walt Disney World is testing souvenir photos that turn guests into the Haunted Mansion's ghosts and singing stone busts. Disney has not said how the pictures are made, but fans who think the busts look AI-generated are objecting on behalf of the ride's original designers.
“According to Soller, LLMs have allowed many first-time contributors to make their mark on COSMIC, but their entries were "unplanned and rarely accepted.”
COSMIC, the Linux desktop made by System76, now requires anyone offering code to confirm that none of it, including the comments and the description, was written by an AI. The project said AI had brought in many first-time contributors whose work was rarely usable but still had to be checked by a person.
“Google engineers and open-source maintainers were reportedly being overwhelmed by thousands of these poorly written reports”
Google has stopped taking product flaw reports in its reward program for open-source software after a flood of AI-written submissions describing bugs that were invalid or did not exist. It says it will give an update by early 2027.
“Any form of deception makes a page untrustworthy to both users and our automated quality systems”
Google has added a paragraph to its guidance for websites saying that invented author names, false credentials and AI-generated headshots count as deception and mark a page as low quality. The change follows reporting on sites that published under journalists who do not exist.
“one of them was quite clearly that you couldn’t use generative AI to produce things”
Nikon says it is re-reviewing the winner of its annual microscope video contest after scientists said the colourful structures in it match nothing found in biology. The winner says the footage is real and that AI was used only to colour it; a fellow finalist says the contest rules ban generative AI.
“it is still AI slop, no matter how much tehzeeb and Urdu shayari you wrap it in.”
AI-generated reels of animals in formal dress reciting Urdu poetry at a mock poetry gathering have taken over Indian Instagram. Fans have picked sides between a dog poet in a black suit and her rival, a snake in a green lehenga.
“'Benjamin's' most popular video is of himself depicted dancing in a bar which has been viewed millions of times”
A social media account for a man called Benjamin Stachio gained more than 90,000 followers within a few days, mostly on the strength of a video of him dancing in a bar. Benjamin is not real: every video on the account is AI-generated, and his proportions are not ones a human body can have.
“the popular topic has been swallowed up by AI content creators chasing big engagement.”
The fact-checking site Lead Stories says many of the viral videos showing whales surfacing right beside boats are AI-generated. The fakes add barnacles, scars and water splashing on the lens to look real, and often put a boat in shot so the whale looks enormous.
“A relatively small proportion of authors are submitting a large number of low-quality papers and consuming a disproportionate fraction of the moderators’ time”
arXiv, the site where scientists post research papers before formal publication, now limits each submitter to two new papers a month after a surge of low-quality submissions that AI tools helped drive. It received 40,363 submissions in September, about double the number from two years ago, and they are checked by volunteer moderators.
“Sorry to everyone who enjoyed the game! But the suits got involved and the fun is over.”
A self-described "AI Creative" released a free browser game called Fallout: New York, generated with an AI model and hosted at a Fallout-named web address. Days later the creator said a cease and desist notice had arrived from the company that owns Fallout, and took the game down.
“I have deliberately corrupted the mod to prevent it from functioning with such unauthorized uploads”
The creator of one of the most popular fan-made add-ons for the game Total War: Warhammer III deliberately broke it so it would stop working with copies that other people had re-released using AI without permission. The creator, who has worked on it for nearly 10 years, also threatened to make it private.
“I help with US government services and official program information. I do not discuss political questions or election outcomes”
The US government's new America.gov chatbot told users that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, citing official federal results, which contradicts the president who launched it. Futurism reports that the chatbot now declines to answer questions about the 2020 election at all.
“Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”
Pope Leo XIV posted on X that it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce, describing the difference as ontological before it is aesthetic. TechCrunch notes this follows an encyclical on AI in May.
“Somebody sent me a 50-minute episode of ‘Doctor Who’ that was AI-generated the other day. It’s pretty good”
A senior BBC executive told a television industry conference that someone had sent him a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who and that it was pretty good. He previously ran Google's European operations.
“the company abruptly stopped publishing in the wake of our story.”
A company that buys struggling news sites and fills them with AI-written articles under made-up bylines has stopped publishing. Futurism reports its sites have also all but vanished from Google's search and news results.
“Six tech titans, one president, zero proofreaders.”
A one-page White House pact promising four layers of oversight for advanced AI was signed by the president and six tech company heads. The signature line reads “President of the Unites States.”
“During the follow-up investigation, he admitted the photo was AI-generated and that the report was false,”
Police and professional snake handlers in Santa Ana, California searched a neighbourhood for a deadly African viper after a resident reported one in a tree and supplied a photo. Police say he later admitted the photo was AI-generated.
